April Fox, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1134323926
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 98 payments — averaging $29.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$683
- Medtronic$464
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$400
- Davol Inc.$242
- Baxter Healthcare$164
- Axonics, Inc.$160
- plus $749 from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$29710%
- Food & beverage$2,56590%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 8 | $683 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 14 | $464 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 18 | $400 |
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $242 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 7 | $164 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 6 | $160 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $84 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $80 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $49 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $43 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $43 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $39 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $27 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 1 | $23 |
| Medspira, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Concordia Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $6 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$2,862 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 200 colon & rectal surgery providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 58 | $3,750 |
| Metronidazole | 26 | $62 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 22 | $61 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 11 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Megan TurleyAustin$21K
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- Bidhan DasSugar Land$350K
- Eric HaasHouston$317K
- Erik AskenasyHouston$254K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.